01987cam a2200241 i 4500 771674070 TxAuBib 20190222120000.0 180627s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018030394 9781635572049 HRD 22.00 1635572045 HRD 22.00 DLC eng DLC rda DLC TxAuBib rda Chariandy, David John, 1969-, author. Brother [Book] / David Chariandy. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., [2017] 180 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "One sweltering summer in the Park, a housing complex outside of Toronto, Michael and Francis are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry. While their Trinidadian single mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home, Francis helps the days pass by inventing games and challenges, bringing Michael to his crew's barbershop hangout, and leading escapes into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves. Propelled by the beats and styles of hip hop, Francis dreams of a future in music. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, thesmartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow. Honest and insightful in its portrayal of kinship, community, and lives cut short, David Chariandy's Brother is an emotional tour de force that marks the arrival of a stunning new literary voice" -- Provided by publisher. 20190228.